Xun Zi's Political Thought Research

Xunzi is the outstanding thinker of confucian in china, and he always travel around many country in order to publicize the how to statecraft, and become a principal of Jixia palace at three times.Compared with Mencius, Xunzi’political thinking is quite different, even some of the viewpoint are refute on Mencius.He put forward a different theroy such as "evli human nature" and "propriety and law" and "hegemony with justics", which are do not conform with the orthodox Confucian theroy. Besides he has two disciples Lee si and Han fei, who are representative figure of the Legalist. Hence Xunzi suffered scholars dispute and the most important thing is most of scholars are hard to evaluate Xunzi’s thinking.From the observation of above issues, author ues the politics theroy to analysis Xunzi. Through analysis the relations of outside and inside factor fo Xunzi’thinking. Author believe that by the keen of observation and analysis, Xunzi find that it has a contradiction in the development of confucian. Therefore he trying according to the actual political demond and absord the essence of each school, to make confucian more adjust to acture demonds. Xunzi wants to use the ruler’s authority to push confucian style reform so that can acheve confucian political blueprint.History has proved that although Xunzi’s politics thinking are not be use by ruler, but from long-term perspective, this theory are vert suit to unified empire after end of the war. It lay the foundation for confucian political thinking to be a orthodox thinking.because of intense realism and rigorous academic style, Xunzi add brilliant for the development of confucianism. In general Xunzi is a true Confucian scholar。...